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I am a creative, intense person and I love being around others who are creative too, even if we don't see eye-to-eye. My skills are all over the place - computers, electronics, writing, sailing, sewing, graphic design, inventing, ham radios, photography, LEGO robotics, fixing stuff, teaching, audio engineering, project management.
My life is seldom quiet or boring. My wife Heather and I live in Blue Hill, Maine - a small town on the Atlantic ocean. She teaches 5th grade in the same district where I am the K-12 technology coordinator. Our daughter Aiden is a freshman at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor. Our daughter Abby is getting ready to graduate from George Stevens Academy here in Blue Hill and head off to the University of Southern Maine in Portland this fall. Our son Alden is in the 4th grade and the very definition of a "Lego Maniac".
This picture of me is typical of the crazy stuff I seem to fall into. A few years ago, I wrote my first grant and received funding to travel to the Neutral Buoyancy Lab at NASA's Houston Space Center. The project was to document ways the same practices could be used to create a microgravity experience in a university pool. Our contact at NASA not only took us on a full tour of the NBL (something we were told never happens) but he also took us to the rest of NASA's facilities in Houston. Here, I'm sitting in one of two "high fidelity space shuttle simulators." This is as close to the real thing as NASA knows how to make and it sits on a tilt bed to give astronauts a very realistic experience.
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